What is recorded here

Bogrie House stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house later shaped into a seventeenth-century farmhouse, proving that survival often requires changing shape rather than resisting change. The tower may have offered defense during violent centuries, while the farmhouse suggests a quieter era when the same stones served hunger instead of fear. A building that outlives both wars and harvests belongs to everyone who recognises that adaptability is the deepest form of strength.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bogrie House as Farmhouse (17th Century), Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Bogrie House, located in Aberdeenshire, was originally a medieval tower house, later converted into a farmhouse in the 17th century. It is remembered for its historical significance as a well-preserved example of a transition from defensive medieval architecture to domestic use in rural Scotland.

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